May 29 is the day Nigerian celebrate her democracy day, to mark the date democracy was returned after rough and tough decades of military dictatorship. this history was made when Gen. Abdulsalam Abubarka ( who took over after mysterious demise of tyrant dictator Gen. Sani Abacha ), handed over power to the elect president on may 29th 1999.
Since then Nigerian have been on her road to the dreamed promise land and had been ruled by several leaders since then. fifteen year after then Nigeria is still no where near the promise land as the would be smooth ride have been turned rough and almost stagnant by various poor political policies and corruption and i'll will to hold-on to power..
And its quiet unfortunate that all the dividend of democracy Nigerian expect has not been met.
And the society is characterised with abject poverty amidst the poor majority and few extremely wealthy people as Nigeria have the richest black man and woman (Aliko Dangote and Folorunso Alakija respectively ), also there is extreme poverty here as there are countless people without home and more than 70% of the population earning less than 1$ per day, and more than 80% underemployed.
This is because the wealth of the nation is concentrated in the hand of few, and most of the population doesn't have enough to meet their basic daily need, therefore the natural drive for people to get rich. hence the perceived corruption seen amidst the citizen but it is extreme poverty and hunger that bring about this corruption which has so much affected the economic growth of the country.
But the present president Rt. Gen. Muhammed Buhari as sworn and fighting hard with with corruption and trying to restore the the integrity of the country.
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